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Before Guadalcanal, Hersey spent a month at Pearl Harbor-and then two months on a carrier with a task-force in the South Pacific. His best story is about the bomber that saved one of the task-force ships by exploding a torpedo which had just been fired at it by a Japanese submarine. The plane actually dropped a bomb on the torpedo, exploded it a few hundreds yards from its target...
Tough, square-jawed Eddie Rickenbacker, ace of American flying aces in World War I, was on a special mission from Hawaii to a Pacific combat area for the Secretary of War. With him in the big four-motored bomber were seven others...
...later the Western Defense Command announced that the trailing plane that clipped the tail assembly was an army bomber. About all other details it was mum. Airline officials and pilots had cause to say: "I told you so." Long & loud have been their complaints about Ferry Command pilots who hop on & off the airlines' beam without reporting positions to traffic controls. One pilot reported last week he had to pull up the nose so fast to avoid hitting an army plane that he almost threw his passengers through the floor. The Army and CAA immediately launched an investigation: this...
...R.A.F. and the growing U.S. bomber and fighter forces in Egypt concentrated on Rommel's airdromes for two weeks before the battle opened. In the last four days of preparation, Axis airports and grounded planes were continuously bombed. Result: at the zero hour, the British and U.S. flyers believed that for the first time they had more planes in the air than the Germans had. British, South African, Australian and U.S. flyers worked in perfect coordination; the teamwork between ground and air forces had also improved since the British retreated into Egypt last summer...
...forerunner. The 1943 planes will have bigger bomb loads (probably ten tons or better), longer ranges, even more anti-fighter fire power. It was to such planes that President Roosevelt referred in part last week when he announced a revision of the U.S. aircraft program. The bulk of U.S. bomber production next year will probably still be in planes like the Fortress and Liberator, but newer types should be going into service before summer...